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WILLIAMSBURG – — The economic downturn and a lackluster summer tourism season took a toll on Colonial Williamsburg last year, according to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s annual report. The 2008 report, which was released Tuesday, showed the foundation’s revenue dipped by $15 million from 2007. The foundation, which is the governing body that operates [...]
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When your world is full of strange arrangements
And gravity wont pull you through
You know youre missing out on something
Well that something depends on you
All Im saying, it takes a lot to love you
All Im doing, you know its true
All I mean now, theres one thing
Yes one thing that turns this grey sky to blue
Thats the [...]
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Will be interesting to see.
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VCU Brandcenter consists of 60 weeks (give or take). When I first set out in August 2007, I thought I knew everything. I told myself I wasn’t there to make friends. I wanted to be the best art director. In less than 2 years I would emerge with an education that many would envy to [...]
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What an awesome issue this month of Paper Magazine. In the past, I found the magazine a little too hipster (ya know… not knowing what the hell you’re reading or looking at). The focus this month is rebranding America and instead of call for entries, Paper enlisted top creative thinkers. Even Alex Bogusky was on [...]
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What Obama’s Done for America’s Confidence \ Huffington Post
What is a recession? What constitutes a bear stock market? In both cases, it’s nothing more than perception. It’s the collective belief by consumers and businesses alike that things are bad and getting worse. And it’s mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy. Americans stop spending, corporate profits turn to [...]
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Delicious branding
Charm City Cakes, located in Baltimore, is quite innovative, to say the least, when it comes to cakes and cake decorating. They are featured regularly on Food Network. I caught an episode yesterday of when they were tasked to design and make the cake for Milk Bone’s 100th anniversary celebration in NYC back in May [...]
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It’s all about Now. Makes me think differently about Sprint… like I’m sort of missing out on…. Now.
Great work by Goodby as presented today by John Thorpe at VCU Brandcenter.
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It’s safe to say panic has set in. One of the reasons why I am not at Brandcenter much these days. But when I am, it’s for speakers or to meet up with group members refusing to make the trek to Starbucks. Then there are days there’s a good reason to be at school. Last [...]
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I owe a lot to Sally Hogshead. Whenever her name comes up in conversation or in class, I glow a little bit. A whiny email sent back in 2007 resulted in meeting her in person at a coincidental VCU Adcenter Speaker Series days later. Not only was in well into my 3rd year slump at [...]
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